WATCH: Step Right Up to See the GOP’s Amazing War on Women [Saunders Cartoon]

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Editors’ note:Mother Jones illustrator Zina Saunders creates editorial animations riffing on the political news and current events of the week. In this week’s animation, the GOP urges you to step right up to see the greatest circus on earth—the 2012 Republican presidential campaign. The animation, as always, was written, animated, and acted by Zina Saunders.

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Zina Saunders is an award-winning illustrator whose work appears in national magazines and newspapers and whose political satires have amused or outraged her audience, depending on which side of the aisle they sit.